Monthly Archives: April 2011 I finished sewing the binding on this monstrosity over a week ago, but it took me forever to get pictures because (1) it’s really hard to get decent pictures of a quilt this big and (2) I’m disappointed in the quilting. I couldn’t figure out why some sections of the quilt seem to pull in […]  I finished this swiss dot skirt a month or so ago, but haven’t had a good chance to take pictures. I’ve even worn it but forgot to have Nic take some pics. My plan was to have him bust out a few pictures today of these two skirts in use, but it snowed this morning […]  This quilt is going on 15 years of UFO-ness. It’s the first quilt I ever worked on, though I’ll probably have made 50 by the time I get this one finished. It’s a sample quilt that I started at the tender age of 13. I was hand quilting it at the stroke of midnight 2000. […] Will knows that he has to sleep in his bed during the week in order to have a sleepover in our room on Friday nights. Last night he came into our bed. I didn’t feel like taking him back and when I reminded him that he needed to go to his bed in order to […] Mom? Can you paint my toes? Only not purple. Purple is for girls. Will, admiring my purple toenail polish. I am in the dining room feeding Ellie and playing on the laptop. Will is in the living room watching cartoons. All of a sudden I hear a panicked voice: “MOM! This isn’t appropriate! I thought it was appropriate but it’s not!” I look over and he’s hiding under the sofa cushions. I look at […] |
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